No Bake Energy Bites
Updated Jun 20, 2025
Easy no bake energy bites made with 6 ingredients, quick oats, creamy peanut butter, ground flaxseed, coconut flakes, honey, and mini chocolate chips.
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No Fuss No Bake Energy Bites!
No bake energy bites are one of those things I started making when I got tired of buying packaged snacks that felt healthy-ish but never actually kept me full. These are made with just 6 ingredients, and I can throw them together in under 10 minutes, no oven, no mess.
I usually make a batch of energy bites at the beginning of the week and stash them in the fridge. They’re easy to grab between errands, school pick-up, or when I just need something quick that isn’t a bag of chips. The oats give them some staying power, and the mix of nut butter and honey keeps them soft and flavorful without tasting like health food.
Energy Bites Ingredients
- Quick Oats: Don’t swap for rolled oats or steel-cut oats because they won’t be soft enough to chew even after resting.
- Creamy Peanut Butter: You can swap it with any nut butter, or even tahini or sunflower butter.
- Honey: You can use maple syrup instead or any other liquid sweetener.
- Shredded Coconut: I like to use unsweetened flakes, but if you want the bites to be a little sweeter, you can use sweetened flakes.
- Ground Flaxseed: You can use hemp seeds or chia seeds instead. You can definitely toss in more seeds, too! Chia seeds, hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds add more plant-based protein to the energy bites and give them an extra crunch.
- Mini Chocolate Chips: Because I knew it would sweeten the deal for my kids. You can definitely skip them, though. You can also use white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or even toffee pieces.
How to Make Energy Bites
By far, the best energy bite recipe I have tried!! Love it!
– Kelley
No Bake Energy Bites Recipe
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Ingredients
- 1 cup quick oats
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup shredded coconut
- ¼ cup ground flaxseed
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup honey
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients together in a large bowl and mix with a spoon or spatula until well incorporated.
- Cover the bowl and place in the refrigerator to set for 30 minutes.
- Once chilled, remove from the fridge. Use a 1.5 tablespoon-size spring-loaded cookie scoop to scoop the mixture into 18 balls and roll with your hands.
- Enjoy immediately or refrigerate for 7-10 days.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information provided is an estimate. It will vary based on cooking method and specific ingredients used.
Recipe Variations
- Add chopped nuts: You can add up to ¼ cup of cashews, walnuts or pecans chopped finely.
- Drop in some dried fruit: Think of using chopped dates, raisins, apricots or cranberries. I would recommend chopping them up finely or blending them in the food processor. And if you are adding more dried fruit, it helps to balance out the sweetness with something salty or bland like more nuts, oats or almond meal, or unsweetened protein powder.
- Use your favorite protein powder: Take the energy to another level by adding a scoop or two tablespoons of protein powder. You may need to add more peanut butter or water so they’re not too dry.
- Spice it up: To add more flavor, I love throwing in cinnamon, or other warm spices like nutmeg, ginger, cardamom, turmeric or cloves. A lot of these spices have anti-inflammatory properties too so you’ll get a healthy dose of that in your energy bites!
- Mash a banana into it: This adds natural sweetness and moisture to help hold everything together. You can add a quarter of a banana or about 2-3 tablespoons.
Thank you for this recipe….these are so good that I can’t stop eating them 😋-Faye A
Recipe Tips
- Allow 30 minutes to an hour for the dough mixture to chill. This will help the balls hold their shape when you roll them and it will also help the flavors to develop.
- Wet your hands when rolling the energy bites. This will help add some moisture to the oats since we’re not cooking them. It also helps makes forming the mixture into balls much easier.
- Use a cookie scoop to form the balls. This way you can create similar sized bites and the mixture will be easier to scoop and shape. I also think it’s much faster than using your hands
- Test the mixture moisture level before rolling. It should be slightly tacky to the touch. If the mixture is too dry, try adding more peanut butter or honey. On the other hand, if you feel that the mixture is too wet, you can fix that by adding more oats or more flaxseed.
FAQs
These energy bites should be refrigerated for maximum freshness and they have a relatively long shelf life and will last for up to two weeks in the refrigerator when stored in an airtight container.
All the ingredients in these energy bites are freezer-friendly! Just place the energy bites on a baking sheet and freeze them until solid. Then, transfer them to an air-tight, freezer-safe container or heavy-duty freezer bag and store them for up to three months.
It’s important to chill your oat mixture before forming it into balls and then store those balls in the refrigerator. Chilling them is what helps them retain their shap
Make sure you have enough oats and dry ingredients in your energy bites to absorb the honey. It is a delicate balance between too wet/sticky and not enough binder ingredients. If you’re running into problems, I suggest adding a tablespoon or two of either the dry or wet ingredients until you get the desired texture you’re after.
Comments
Would you recommend sweetened or unsweetened coconut?
I like to use unsweetened flakes personally, but you can use sweetened flakes if you want the bites to be a little sweeter. Enjoy!
Thanks for the tips! This worked well. I accidentally used milk chocolate chips instead of semisweet, so they were too sweet for us. I will use semisweet chocolate chips next time!
Oh no!! I’ve done that before too. So glad you still liked the recipe, Amira!
Would this recipe work with almond butter instead of peanut butter?
Yes, absolutely!
Thank you!
These energy bites are delicious. They are super easy to make. My husband and I love them. My sister also started making these and her family loves them too. I really enjoy all of Yumna’s recipes!
Aww, thank you!! So happy you and everyone you’ve shared the recipe with love them!
Hi! I make these every week and absolutely love them. I’m trying to track my protein intake and make sure I’m getting enough – can you tell me the quantity related to the nutritional info? Is this per one energy ball, or two, or three? Thanks!
Great question, Emma! The nutrition info is for one energy ball.
Thanks!
I made the No Bake Energy Bites and they are delicious.
Amazing!! So happy you loved them!
This is an awesome recipe! My previous go-to recipe was a bit more complicated and didn’t stay together as well. My kids noticed the difference and really love these. I tripled the batch and subbed in half protein powder/half flax seed.
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